Release Date: August 6, 2024
With this release, usability for editors and admins has been optimized, and SmartStash can now be customized even further to meet individual needs.
New Features and Web Parts
New Columns, Integration with Word
SmartStash documents and articles now include columns for Review Date, Editor, Edit Date, Creation Date, and Creator. The entries in these columns can be displayed in Word documents, since SharePoint system columns are not supported in Word.
How to Display Columns in Word Documents – SmartStash Docs
Default Navigation When Creating New Stashes
When creating new stashes, site navigation and views are now generated automatically. This helps users find their way around more quickly at the start and makes configuring new stashes less time-consuming.
Create a New Stash Yourself – SmartStash Docs
Search Terms in the Compliance Panel
In the Compliance Panel, you can now define keywords for articles and documents that can be found using the full-text search. This allows you to add additional search terms so that posts can be found more easily.
Post Metadata Overview – SmartStash Docs
Custom KQL in MyStash
In the MyStash web part, it is now possible to add filters for items or stashes using KQL. This feature makes it possible, for example, to break down the number of required items for new employees into smaller batches or to place the MyStash web part in multiple locations based on context.
Web Part Settings – SmartStash Docs
Create Stashes from a Team Site Yourself
In the SmartStash Admin Center, you can now create stashes directly from team sites.
Create a New Stash Yourself – SmartStash Docs
News Web Part – Custom KQL and Pagination
In the SmartStash News web part, pagination can now be enabled to display page numbers. It is possible to add filtering to the news using KQL.
News Web Part for the Home Page – SmartStash Docs
Usability improvements
New Date Picker
The design of the term picker for selecting tags in the Compliance Panel has been optimized. Users can now search for tags and synonyms. Tag trees can now be partially or fully expanded or collapsed. Descriptions and synonyms for the tags are displayed next to the term. Users receive a notification if there are still tags stored that no longer exist.
Post Metadata Overview – SmartStash Docs
Accordion Web Part
You can now create multiple entries in the Accordion Web Part. This means you no longer have to add a new Accordion Web Part for each entry. This helps prevent performance issues and search problems caused by having too many Web Parts on a single page.
Accordion Web Part – SmartStash Docs
"Publish Quickly" in the Menu Bar
SmartStash articles and documents can now be published directly or submitted for approval/review using a button in the upper-right corner. Publishing via the Compliance Panel is still possible as usual.
Create a SmartStash Article – SmartStash Docs
Organizational Chart Web Part
The Organizational Chart web part now displays a “More Information” button if an information page link has been configured in the organizational structure (for example, to link to a department overview page). The tile layout has been optimized when no staff positions are configured.
Control How Tiles Are Displayed – SmartStash Docs
Bug fixes/stability improvements
Related Files – File Name: "Overlength"
If the title of "Related Files" is too long, it is no longer truncated but is indicated at the end.
Overview Web Part
In the Overview web part, KQL is now also included under "Recently Updated Posts."
Miscellaneous
Admin Center – List of Stashes
In the Admin Center, you can search the list of stashes, which is generally sorted alphabetically rather than by creation date.
Overview of the Admin Center – SmartStash Docs
Set "Read" Confirmation Buttons for Non-Stashes
In the Admin Center, you can now configure whether to display the "Mark as Read" buttons for non-stashes (similar to the "Scroll to Top" button).
General Settings – SmartStash Docs
Restrictions on People Fields in the Compliance Panel
A Stash admin can now set restrictions in the selection fields for contacts and read receipts so that not every existing group or user can be selected.
Restrictions on the "People" Fields – SmartStash Docs
Scroll to the top to view the news
In the Global Overview web part, you can now specify whether the "Scroll to top" feature is enabled for the news view.
Configuring the Web Part – SmartStash Docs
